TELEGRAMS.

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fell and was caught between, the lift and the floor; and he was taken to the hospital, and is in a critical condition. PRISONERS ATTEMPT TO ESCAPE. Christchurch, June 19. • Two prisoners at Lyttelton Gaol, R, McCarthy and A. Rawson, made a daring but unsuocesgful attempt to osoape this afternoon. With the aid of . a long rope whioh they had manufactured out of bits of calico, they dropped over the high outer wall of the gaol and made off along an adjoining thoroughfare. The warder on the watch tower saw them escaping, but he did not fire for fear of hitting the children in a school playground below. The gaoler and warders, pursued the fugitives and captured them in a private yard not far from the gaol. McCarthy has escaped twice before and has been declared an habitual criminal Kawson who came from Australia in 1902, is at present serving sentence of five years for burglary.