London, December 3. At the Panama Canal inquiry, a member of the committee on the Panama Lottery Loan Bills deposed that an emissary of M. Charles De Lesseps vainly offered him oua hundred thousand francs to vote for the bill, and on his refusal, the offer was in creased to half a million francs. M. Barker deposed that M. Barbeleate, Minister for Agriculture, received half a million francs for promoting the Lottery Bill, and he alleged that the late Baron Reinach assisted in keeping up the Panama shock, A city banker indicated the names of persons whom Charles de Lesseps had bribed. At the wool sales a large selection of heavy inferior Queensland wools were offered. A weak price was obtained, occasional buyers offering from 6|d per lb to BJd. For other wools there was spirited competition, but prices were unaltered. Business in New Zealand : Long-berried wheat (ex Warehouse) is restricted at 32s 3d; New Zealand hemp is steady, lent in achieve good to fair quality, £25 10s per ton. At a meeting of the New Zealand Mid land Railway Company the chairman said the proposals to the Government to vary the terms of the contracts were being done in a fair business-like manner. The medical officer of the port of London expresses himself confident that the cholera epidemic will return in the Spring. There are many indications of the truth of the statement that Princess May of has been betrothed to the Duke of York. J It is reported that Professor Boyce is urging the Cabinet to convene a Colonial Federal Conference in 1893, and that his colleagues are favorable to the proposal being given effect to, after a royal com missioner of inquiry as to the feasibility of the scheme his been reported on the matter. The Aorangi’s skin milk cheese is mal odorous, and realised about 21s per cwt. Jay Gould, the millionaire, died from pul monary consumption after nine days’illness. He leaves a fortune of thirty-four millions sterling. It is expected that he has be queathed from three to live million dollars to charities, George Gould inherits 40 per cent, of the estate. The American press refer to his death with contemptuous pity, and are glad his sinister influence has ended. The steamer Grey Stoke, of 1,386 tons, hailing from Hartlepool, has been wrecked south of the Elbe. Twenty-two persons were drowned. 