Irvine Express and North Ayrshire Post. — 1886-06-04 (Irvine, Strathclyde, Scotland)

GLASOOW, SCOTLAND, MAY 11, 1886. The Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Works, Limited (late John Elder & Go.), of Govan, builders of the famous "greyhounds of the Atlantic," are preparing to lay down for a syndicate a most terrible engine of naval warfare, whose destructive powers have never been approached. The vessel will be built of Vickers steel and guaranteed to steam twenty-two knots an hour. She will be armed with Maxim guns, throwing ten fin. improved shots per minute, and also a Maxim shell containing 400 pounds of blasting gelatine, which can he hurled over 1500 yards, one of which is capable of destroying any ironclad afloat. Mr George Roberts manager of the Nobel Dynamite Works in Ayrshire, and the greatest authority and expert in explosives, in conjunction with Mr Maxim, have perfected the combination of gelatine-loaded shells, and last week the experiments at Ardeer were most successful and startling, their destructive power being something awful to behold. When this vessel is completed and the claims of Her designer demonstrated and verified, the syndicate will place her on the market of the world, and the highest bidder can take her. The machinery of this vessel has been designed by Mr A. D. Bryce. Douglas, which is an ample guarantee of its efficiency. When completed and in active service, the navies of the world will be at the mercy of this craft. She is to be named the Destroyer, and will be the "terror of the seas."  AT a meeting of gentlemen in London on Monday, it was resolved, on the motion of Lord Kintore, to form a benefit society for the relief of gamekeepers who may be incapacitated by illness or old age. A DOUBLE execution took place at Winchester Jail on Monday morning. Albert Brown, a Waterman, was executed for the murder of a youth, and James Whelan, seaman, Nova Scotia, suffered the extreme penalty of the law for killing a second mate on the high seas. TIIE Australian Steam Navigation Company's steamer Ly-Ee-Moon has been totally wrecked off the Green Cape, while on her voyage from Melbourne to Sydney. All on board, with the exception of ten, were lost. It is supposed that seventy persons in all were drowned.  WHILE making excavations in a court in Upperkirkgate, Aberdeen, on Monday, an an3ient bronze pot was unearthed, which was found to contain no fewer than 6000 silver coins, about the size of sixpenny pieces. The majority of the coins belong to the reign of Edward I. A somawnaT serious quarrel occurred in Dublin on Sunday night between a number of privates belonging to the Scots Guards and a crowd in the streets. The soldiers pelted their assailants severely with their belts and received much rough usage in return, several of the Guardsman requiring to go to hospital, and also many of the citizens who were hurt. Several of the rioters were brought before the Magistrates. In a few cases fines were imposed, the others being dismissed. CHARLES FOWLER and Charles William Oldham were on Monday charged at the Mansion-House, London—the former with obtaining money for false reports supplied to the Prim Association, the latter with attempting to get money from the Time for what was bogus news. The cue against Fowler implicated certain safe-makers, who appear to have paid him for incorporating their names in connection with the saving of books in fires that never occurred.