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PROPOSED UNIFICATION.
PORTLAND, Wednesday.
Petitions asking the Federal Parliament
to take a vote of the people on the ques
tion of, unification arc , being extensively
signed hero. /-Many of the residents feel
.that Portland has been prejudicially affec
ted by State jealousies and preferential
railway 'rales, and they see no -hope for
1 he construction o£ the proposed railway
to Mount Gambler while arbitrary boun
daries between tlie different States' divert
trade from its naturaichannels.
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