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Grey River Argus, Volume III, Issue 166, 5 February 1867, Page 2

■Mr- Wm. Dargan, the Irish contractor; hai^ ? made an assignment ; the liabilities are reatir mated .it LIoQ.OJOO. The assets corisut/ mainly .of about' L300,00Q of railway se^! curities, which, if forced upoii the market, f would probably not bring irore than^aitj average of about forty-four per cent, but %ith^ ;: ; care in realisation niayyield a much. ' libttOT £. rCSUIt. ■."'"". - :'■ ;,«V.^ ; One of the largest takes of herrings perhaps ever known was secured in Du,bUn/Bay on Sunday night. A fleet of aboitilOK^K; smacks were engaged at the. wor£^^a?ill3f secured such quantities that "great (UffiStjtyf arose in getting in the nets. The i '"fisfiiSw^feV brought ashore anil* piled in immenste'hei^a; along the pier at Kingston, and the; district was gcoured for salt witfe which to preierv©^ them.— Leeds Mercury. :■ /t • A Sad. Story. -The GDublJ-a pap^rs^mention a very' painful XV romance of the peerage," nian, yso gave his nain& as'Moore, : :w.^'/a'short ; time-'^ißce\-Lrougb^ : upri:' at one of the < iDublin police-courts charged with theft, and tie offence being proved^ he/ was sentenced to two months'. imprisonment. : On mvestigatiOn it; turned put that his father/ ■ w^.--*%:-^?^"'!>ajoiiet : qf very old creation, . but who was m such abject poverty that he '" wasconipelled to get his livelihood by selling ma^es in the streets. : It is stated ;that ''the 7 mother of the lad was sister to an ; Irishman, whQ for many years sat in Parlia- ■ ment/for an English seat, and who at one time was a greatpopular leader of lie Eng* lisK working classes." If the Dublin papers are correctly informed, "this genealogy mast apply to the family of Sir Richard Emmanuel Moore, the tenth baronet; who wajs married to the sister of ■': the late Feargus O^omior, lorniorly M.P. forN/ottinghjrai. . m: :m:xf:-x: •;;/:■#: