Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Carrington n.

In phrases

do a carrington (v.) [? Right Hon. Charles Robert, Baron Carrington, sometime Governor of New South Wales, whose departure from Australia ‘was marked by expressions of regret and esteem, quite without previous parallel in Australian history’ (Philip Mennell, The Dict. of Australian Biography, 1892)]

(Aus.) to run away.

1900		Bulletin (Sydney) 18 Aug. 14/3: By-the-way – ‘when a chock-an-log sniffs ole pot-an’-pan, he does a carrington’ means merely that when a dingo scents man he decamps.
1905		Bulletin (Sydney) 21 Sept. 40/1: I sees Podgie comin’ at me with ’arf a palin’ fence an’ a lump o’ kerbstone. ’E bangs the girl ’n charges me, but, no chance – I done a Carrington.
1909		Age (Queanbeyan, NSW) 12 Jan. 2/6: Supposing any one of us was to get lumbered and flopped into that match box clink and a fire was to burst out, you can bet your sweet life that the lovely John Hopper and his missus and the kinchins would do a Carrington and leave the poor philgarlick in the booby hatch to frizzle.