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News report of the shooting of the Syrian sales-man Abraham Khaled. Allegedly by his country-man, friend and business partner, Joseph Chehab. Of particular interest is the article's description of the two men as "well educated" and respectable. The…

On the 28 April 1891 Judge A. Beckett sentenced Lebanese sales-man, Joseph Chehab to death for the attempted murder of his business partner and country-man Abraham Khaled.

Small article documenting the arrest of a Syrian woman for vagrancy in Melbourne. The document has various pieces of information from which inferences about the woman's religion and family can be made.

Newspaper article describing a Sydney Syrian man, Elias Dan, who was found guilty of attempting to bribe a customs officer and fined £150.

A supposed encounter in court between Chinese and Syrian men. Includes references to a policeman's desire to maintain a white Australia.