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Recently a Salvation Army steam-yacht was launched at Toronto. The vessel is to be known as the William Booth, and is intended for service on the lakes both eastward and westward. There are now seven vessels in the service of the " Army.” A gold ring recently unearthed at Hackney turned out to be.one Of 16 which a city alderman, four centuries ago, directed in his will should be made as charms against disease, chiefly cramp. Mr G. G. Stead’s racehorses Blue Fire and Bloodshot were on board the steamer Te Anau on Saturday, en route for the Auckland Summer Meeting. A statute of the “ venerable ’’ Joan of Arc was unveiled at Domremy recently, in the presence of 20,000 pilgrims and the Bishops of Saint Pie, Nancy, and Monaco,

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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1190, 21 December 1894, Page 10

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Untitled New Zealand Mail, Issue 1190, 21 December 1894, Page 10

Untitled New Zealand Mail, Issue 1190, 21 December 1894, Page 10