UNIONISTS GAIN TWO.

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seats and with the promise of further gains it is not at all improbable that labor will have a representation of fifty members in the new parliament. This undoubtedly would have a tre-mendous effect on future legislation in England as the Laborites are almost certain to get the support of the home rulers in any reasonable measure in-troduced by them.

One of the most prominent politicians in England said to the Associated Press to-day:

New View.

"It is useless to minimize the pre-sent revolution and we might as well begin to take a new view of the situ-ation. In my opinion, a parliament sitting at Dublin may be looked for within the next two years. Assured-ly, John Redmond, leader of the Na-tionalist party, and Prime Minister Campbell-Bannerman have reached a working agreement and it is incon-ceivable that Mr. Redmond would be content with anything less than an Irish parliament. I have no idea that such a parliament would mean sep-eration, and have good reasons to be-lieve that a plan is now under con-sideration by which the religious ques-tion can be eliminated from the delib-erations of such a parliament, which would act under the imperial parlia-ment and at least try the experiment of administering Irish affairs under the conditions which have changed in the last century."

The election may be over before the end of next week, the last con-test being set for January 26. Put, so far as the Liberal government is concerned its life can now be mea-sured, not, as was predicted prior to the elections, by months or a few years, but by the limitations of the septennial act.

GUTHRIE'S BUSY DAY.

Arrested the Man Supposed to Have Stolen Chief Villiers' Ducks.

When District Fire Chief Villiers of Berkeley - street fire station was hunting ducks in Frenchman's Bay last Octo-ber, his rubber coat, boots and 20 "de-coys" were stolen. Yesterday Detective Guthrie visited a boathouse at the Don and arrested John Raines, 8 Percy-street, as the party supposed to have done the stealing.

With Raines in the boathouse was John Barry, whom Guthrie was looking for on the charge of stealing thriteen chickens and a duck from Thomas Storey, 13 Water - street. He took him in also.

Guthrie also arrested Castro Youen, 23 Eastern - avenue, whom he found with a quantity of brass supposed to have been stolen from a railroad car at the foot of George - street.

Small Boy Arrested

For some time James Millen, boots and shoes, 580 College - street, has been annoyed by a number petty thefts committed by a gang of boys. Last night George McGraw, age 13, was arrested as being one of the crowd.

His Foot Crushed

James Bunyan, 43 Simcoe - street, while working in the G. T. R. round-

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