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FOREIGN EXCHANGE RATES. The Bank of New South .Wales, Wellington, quotes telegraphic rates of exchange on overseas centres as follows: — On. Buying. Selling. New York. dols. to £NZ.I 8.2542 5.2050 Montreal, dols. to £N.Z.I 3.6039 3.5290 Ind., Cy"n.,-N.Z. d. to nip. 22 3-16 22* i; London, £st. 100 to £NZ. 124% 125 Aust'lia, £NZ. 100 to £A. IOO'/s 100 Fiji, £N.Z. 100 to £F. . 90 88«£ S. African £100 to £NZ. 123 123% LONOON SHARE INDICES. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.) LONDON, March 19. •,'Flnnnelal Times" stock and share indices, with previous quotations, are (October 15, 1926 equals 100) :— Govt. Home Indus- Goldsees, rails, trials, mines. March 2 1.... 113 9 676 1212 147 6 March '16 .... 113.7 4 67.2 121.6 150.7 March 17 .... 113.7 fifi.S 121.7 150.7 'March 18 .... 113.7 66.7 122.0 150.6.. MINING. (I\A.) GREYMOUTH, This Day. Tae Snowy River dredge return this week was.. 107oz for 132 "hours' work and 30,000 yards excavated. Blackball, Creek had no wash-up. _______«___i___««« — ,

Mrs. A.. N. Grigg, M.P. for Mid-Can-terbury, is to address women members and supporters of the National Party at St. Andrew's School Hall on Thursday evening next. Mrs. Grigg, who has established a Dominion-wide reputation as a sound thinker and eloquent speaker, recently played a prominent part in a recruiting campaign for the Land Army.