COLONIAL PARLIAMENTARIAN SNUBBED.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 10764, 11 May 1911, Page 4

COLONIAL PARLIAMENTARIAN SNUBBED.

LORD CARRINGTON DEPRECATES . POLITICS. [By Electric- Telegraph—Copyright.] (Per Press Association.) ' Received May 11, at 8.5 a.m. . London, May 10. The- Standard states that after the reporters left Monday's Colonial ■ Insti-tute-meeting Sir John Downer, a South Australian Parliamentarian, was invited by the chairman to speafc, and referred to the Australian referendum. - Lord Carrington (sharply): We cannot have politics here under any , circumstances. This is a non-political meeting, and there must be no politics while I; am in the chair. An impressive silence indicated the sympathy of the meeting with Sir John Downer, who apologised for unintentionally offending. He said: "1 am sorry I have been impolitic, and still more sorry that you called on me to speak."