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Otago Daily Times, Issue 151, 10 May 1862, Page 4

Notice to Commanders and Pilots of Vessels.— Notice is hereby given that'on'and after the Ist of May, 1862/ the following signals will be made at high and low-water in .connection with the tidal signals now exhibited from the Flagstaff at the Semaphore Station, Lefevre's Peninsula :—High water : A square red flag under the outer ball at either yardarm. When, as in the case of the 20 feet signal, balls are exhibited at both yardanns, the red flag (high water signal) will be hoisted ■at tho masthead. Lowwater : A square blue flag under the outer ball at either yardarm. The above .signals will be kept flying from' the time the tidal wave appears stationary until the signal next after high or low water has been ma &e.—B. Douglas, President of the Marine Board, Marine Board Office, Port Adelaide, South Australia. — Sydney Empire, April 26, Dr. Russell, the Special Correspondent of the Times at Washington, is in such a statp of health as to prevent' him from continuing to discharge his important duties as representative of- Printing Housesquare at the "great army of the Potomac."': Mr. Woods, the historian of the Great Eastern, to whose' pen we also owe the magnificent description of the Agamemnon in a storm with the Atlantic cable on. board, and whose account of the great fight between Heennn and Tom Sayers, for the champion's belt' will' long be remembered, declines to take the place of Dr. Russell, on the ground that he his already seea quite enough of foreign service. In this dilemma, the duties of "Our own' Correspondent" will probably devolva npon some person at Washington connected with local journalism.— EnglUh Puper.