FOREIGN EXCHANGES

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 41, 17 February 1934, Page 16

FOREIGN EXCHANGES

(British OfflcUl WJreleii.) ( RUGBY, February 14. Foreign ratci of exchange on" February t 1 aud 14,. compared with par rates,, were:— ', Tar. Feb. 1. Feb. 14. Paris — I Francs to £ . 121.21 11 27-32 77 3.32 KeW York — Dols. to ,£ .. 486 2-3 4.97',-i 5 03'/.. Montreal— Dol3. .to £ .. : 4.8G2-3 5.00 H.O'ij Brussels—' *■ , Belgas to £ , 33 -^1 •>«% 22.79% Geneva— , Francs to. £ M 23.22U 13 SI 13.72 Amsterdam— ' v ( Florins to £ . 12 107 7.62 vi 7.-.3 Milan— • I Lire to '£ .. 92.4G SS'J 37 13-16 Berlin— , .''•'' t Relchmk. to £ 20.43 . 12.89' i ' 12.83 • Stockholm— ' ' Knr. to £;.. IS.IVJ 10.39',i 10.39'^ Copenhagen— ■ : > i * Knr. to £ .. 18.13U, ■ 22.40 22.40 J Oslo— , ' Knr. to £ ... 15.139 19.90 19.90 .Vienna-— r' s ■ , Schll. "to '£ '. 34.35V1 29 2S<4 rrague— Knr.-to £ .. 16Hi ' . 103',-i 107 - Helslngfors— > > Marks to £ . 193.23 226 ft < 22054 Madrid—. Pesetal! to £. 23 2i\~ 3" 25-32 37 13-32 Lisbon— Escudos to £-110 v 110 109Ti Athens— Drach to*£ . 373 • 330 5333 Bucharest— • Lei to £ .. 813G 320 510 Belgrade— Dinar to'£.: 276.32 227 220 Rio— Pence to milrels 0.899 4Vs ' 514% Buenos Aires— Pence to peso 47.62 361/- 5 36,4 Montevideo— Pence to peso 31 37' i s3SH Bombay— ■ Pence to rupee 18 IS 3-32 IS 3-3S Shanghai— 1 Pence to U.S. •_ dol. ...... — - 16% ■ 103-8 Hong Kong— . ' Pence to dol. — 18 18',a rokohama— Pence to yen . 31.38 110-32 119-32 .■ - - i • s Sellers' official, rote. l

Greenwich time is ; indicated ,by the . first stroke of-Big Ben, the famous hell of the HogseS: of-Parliament clock, when striking either midday or miduight.

A weak solution of cobalt chloride will form- an' invisible ink which becomes visible when the paper on which-anything is written": in"'this-liquid is warmed. ;