ASTARDLY ATTEMPT AT TR.IIN WRECKING. NO DAMAGE DONE. (Per Press Association. ) UjißisrcHDKOir, this day. An attempt was made last night to 'reck the 0.15 train from Chriatchurch to lyttelton, the express. Two short pieces of 401 b raila had been iromel in between each of the rails and he longitudinal sleepers, as well aa apiece f rail clip. ' r It was fount) that Ihe train had forced ho piece of the rail into the sleeper >hich fortunately, was rotten, and this .id allowed the fhnge o f the wheels to mas betueen the rail and the obstruction, iid thus a serious accident was averted. Describing the attempt to wreck the mitbern express last Wednesday night, -lie LyUellon Times says :-The train was ommg in at her usual time, and had been ignMl ed in at Colombo street crossing, Hit after passing the erossiag about two shams, and while travelling at the rate of nx miles an hour, the engine struck an obstruction on tbo line just where the :»lind points lead off on to a side line used ior the purpose of stacking shingle to raise » platform. The pr,j n ta had been left so that the express would continue on the main line into the railway station, but some time between half-past seven and nine some person or persons bad, appar- ently with the purpose of turning the engine off the line and wrecking the train, jammed a heavy piece of steel rail, about Ltt bin in length, in between one rail of the mam line and the first point of the "de line. A heavy sledge hammer had been jammed, head first, in between the other rail of the main line and the second point of the sideline, evidently with the object that if the steel rail failed to turn the train off the line, the second obstruc tion would prevent the points from shift ing before the weight of the train. The intention was obviously to turn the train on to the bliud line, where it must inevitably have crashed off the end o) the short length of rails, and the sudden stoppage of the engine would have tele scoped the carriages, or, failing turning into the blind line, the train would have been run off the line on the curve. 