1893. `Sydney Morning Herald,' Aug. 12, p. 8, col. 7:
"Numbers of men who came to be known by the class name of `sundowners,' from their habit of straggling up at fall of evening with the stereotyped appeal for work; and work being at that hour impossible, they were sent to the travellers' hut for shelter and to the storekeeper or cook for the pannikin of flour, the bit of mutton, the sufficiency of tea for a brew, which made up a ration."
1896. `Windsor Magazine,' Dec., p. 132:
"`Here,' he remarked, `is a capital picture of a Queensland sundowner.' The picture represented a solitary figure standing in pathetic isolation on a boundless plain. `A sundowner?' I queried. `Yes; the lowest class of nomad. For days they will tramp across the plains carrying, you see, their supply of water. They approach a station only at sunset, hence the name. At that hour they know they will not be turned away.' `Do they take a day's work?' `Not they! There is an old bush saying, that the sundowner's one request is for work, and his one prayer is that be may not find it.'"
<hw>Super</hw>, <i>n</i>. short for superintendent, sc. of a station.
1870. A. L. Gordon, `Bush Ballads,' p. 23:
"What's up with our super to-night? The man's mad."
1890. Rolf Boldrewood, `Colonial Reformer,' c. ix. p. 83:
"That super's a growlin' ignorant beggar as runs a feller from daylight to dark for nothing at all."
1890. `The Argus,' June 10, p. 4, col. 1: