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The last three days have been marked with considerable mining excitement, and the uneasy "rushing" feeling has grown on the miners here generally, excepting those in the pile claims/to such an extent, that the district may be said to be .suffering from "rush" fever. ..The southern stampede that set in to the Waiho has proved a failure, or nearly so, and very few got gold of the many hundreds that started. On the northern beach a few claims are still steadily at work, and ; are likely to prove remunerative, but the fact is, that a large portion of the digging com munity here have been so bewildered by the vast luck of some at tho Five-mile that they do not care to work for even good wages, but prefer a wandering life, hoping to strike as good a goldfteld as the lucky first comers. The Lake Track Committee, as will be seen elsewhere in this issue,, have resigned, and a new one has been elected, though in fact it is siroply a case of old friends with new faces. The scraps of news, for nothing definite can be got hold of, that come down from that district, are most encouraging, and all that hinders the district from giving profitable employment to thousands, is its inaccessibility. Let a track be once cut, we predict that we shall hear some startling news from this quarter. Two men came in on Thursday night from inland, and not very far from here. • They brought gold in with them, and refused to give any information as to where they had been working, but stated they had done well, and would return immediately. In the course of conversation, one of them said they had beeaout nine weeks. The place was near some large lake, and at one point in it seven creeks ran into if together. There were plenty of pigeons, kau-kaus, and Maori hens, and for three weeks they subsisted entirely on these birds. Rats, too, were numerous, thoughthere was a great deal of snow about. The difficulty they complained of, was what all other Inland proprietors have complained of, viz,, the impossibility of getting stores for their support. During the past week William, or as he is more familiarly termed, Bill Fox, a man. 