AN AMUSING INCIDENT.
An amusing incident, in whicl Viscount Peel, the ex- Speaker; was the principal figure, tooi place the other afternoon in tM part of the House which i* specially reserved for visitor* from another place. His Lordship forgetting for titmoment that he was anything more than a distinguished stranger, -was observed by ft* horror-stricken attendants to to seated v?ith his hat on. All efforts at gesticulations proved of no avail-. One of the ra&. sengers mado his way to thf Peers Gallery,. where the misted was.soon rectified. ' ] One shudders to think, ho^ evßt 1 -,. , says the Westminister -Gazette,- what would have been the fate of any noble lord vb* had committed so dire an offend in the days when Viscount P^, himself, the very .personification of Parliamentary- etiquette, occn*' pied the Presidential Chair. "■
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Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 46, 15 September 1900, Page 4
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135AN AMUSING INCIDENT. Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 46, 15 September 1900, Page 4
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