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Show Monaghan Crops Destroyed. On Wednesday at the meeting of the Galway Guardiais, and on Thursday at the meeting of the Galway urban council, the question of the miserable condition of the people of the village of Montiagh, who are threatened with famine owing to the destruction of their . crops by the floods, was under consld- ' eration. The floods are so great that It Is stated In some parts of the lands about this village there is a depth of twelve or fourteen feet of water over J the crops of the poor villagers, while nearly all the good land of the sur- ; rounding district Is held by graziers. . A deputation of the residents of Mon- j tiagh, including Pat Noon, Pat Duggan 1 (Pat), Bartley Duggan, Pat Corket, I Tom Duggan, Peter Hevy and Peter Duggan, with Mr. .Thomas Casserley, rural councilor, as spokesman, came before the urban council (Sir James O'Donohue in the chair) to ask their assistance to try and get the authorities authori-ties to move in the matter of clearing away the obstructions in the canals and rivers, the Clare river and the Corrlb, and putting their defective floodgates and sluices in Galway in order. j |