A. E. Hayes addresses accusations made by the Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser against the Australian. Hayes begins his letter in this way: 'In an article which appeared in your paper of the 17th inst. endeavouring to depreciate the sale of "The Australian," several attempts are made to discredit my affidavit as it appeared in the latter Journal. Though I have ever been unwilling to obtrude myself on public notice, I now feel imperiously called upon to refute your unfounded insinuations'.