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Grey River Argus, Issue 56, 22 May 1866, Page 3

The s.s. Kennedy sailed from this port on Saturday afternoon for Nelson with a number of passengers. The bar was nearly as smooth . ai a mill-pcnd when she crossed, and she wilf | no doubt make another of her successful runs to the North. We are indebted to the Geclong Advertiser for the following interesting item of romance in real life:— "ln the year 1840, Mr and Mrs Pery and child emigrated to Sydney. Mr Pery brought letters of introduction to the Governor, and was desirous of obtaining employment. The only situation vacant at the time was a clerkship in the office of the commandant at Norfolk Island, and then penal appendage to New South Wales, where the doubly and trebly convicted convicts were sent to. At this time Colonel Ander : son, now residing near Melbourne, was the commandant, and hither Mr Pery and family proceeded. Pery sccupied this situation fcr some years, the pay being under LlOO a year. After a short residence on the island, Mrs Pery, who was a niece of ''Sir -Roger Sheaffe, Bart., died, In the following year, Mr Pery married the . daughter of Lieut. Horsley, of the PGth Regimens, by whom he had a numerous family. The duties devolving upon Mr Pery, of' making lip the mus-ter-rolls of the worst description of convicts, could not, under any circumstances, be considered very aristocratic employment; but owing to the" deaths *of relatives, when Mr Pery quitted Norfolk Island it was with the . title, of Lord ; and in the papers received by last mail we see his death is annonnced in the following terms :— ' Tjie Right Hon. William Henry Tennison Pery, second Earl Limerick, and Baron Glentworth, of Mallow, in the county of Cork, in the peerage of Ireland, and Baron Foxford, of Stackpole Court, in the county^ of Clare, in the peerage of the United Kingdbin^^icd^jju^^^^^u^^^ d.9nly, onti^^ttMHflj^HHJ^^^^^^^^H