Here is a link to the Perseid shower, along with some others it mentions:
http://earthsky.org/astronomy-essent...r-shower-guide
The thing with 'meteor showers' is two fold:
1: the name given to the shower, such as Perseid or Leonid, is that they seem to radiate from a specific part of the sky. In your case, the constellation Perseus. Even though Perseus is a northern constellation, the shower can still be seen from our southern sky, with the apparent radiating point coming from the northern horizon.
2: They occur when the Earth passes through the rement trail of a comet's orbit. The more recent the passing of the comet, the more intense the shower is. This gives rise to the term 'meteor storm', when the hourly rate of meteors will rise from the typical 50 per hour, to 10,000's per hour.
There is one shower that is related directly to Halley's Comet. Buggered if I can't remember which one! Some one might remember. Anyway, when Edmund Halley predicted the return of this comet, the resulting shower that year was an almight meteor storm that made front page news in the newspapers of the time. This storm, along with the work that Sir Edmund Halley did with maths and comets, totally disproved the thought that meteors controlled weather on Earth. It is no mistake the term 'meteorology' as the name for weather studies. It is a remnent of the then belief.
I hope this helps.
Mental.