Obituary
After a severe illness of nearly a month's duration, Mr Andrew Turnbull passed away at 'Braemar,' George street, Windsor (the residence of Miss I. Bushell), on Wednesday morn ing. Deceased was in his 75th year, and tha cause of death was cerebral apoplexy. The late Mr Turnbull was a native of South Hampton, England, and was the son of Andrew Turnbull, a Custom House officer in South Hampton, but who had prievously been a recruiting sergeant in the famous Scots Greys. The subject of this notice served his apprenticeship as a ship's carpenter, after which he went whaling for a time, and came to Australia as a young man. Being a man of remarkable business capacity, and with an energetic and enterprising nature, he soon carved out a destiny and achieved a position in the commercial world that might have been envied by men who had higher ambitions than modest Andrew Turnbull. He went to Ballarat and Bendigo diggings, and experienced some of the vioissitudes that all gold-seekers had to endure in those early days. But he prospered in all his undertakings, for he was a shrewd, cautious, deliberative, clear-headed Scotchman, and always knew what he was about. Fourty-four years ago he was clerk of works for putting down the pier for the bridge over the Nepean River between Penrith and Emu, and at the age of 31 years married Elizabeth Beatson, of Emu, Later he kept an hotel in Sussex-street, Sydney, and after abandoning this business settled down at Emu. He founded the Emu Gravel and Metal Company, which gradually expanded and became a limited liability company, which later on acquired the Prospect metal quarries, and at the time of his death the late Mr. Turnbull was managing director and the largest shareholder of the Emu and Prospect Metal and Gravel Company. He was a man of many admirable parts, and Boores of men not so fortunate as himself had reason to bless the name of Andrew Turnbull. He took the contract for building the brige over thp Hawkesbury at Windsor, and afterwards took in as a partner the late William Dixon. Incidentally in might be stated that during their contract no less than 27 floods and freshes inundated their work. Numerous other bridges in the State including one over Cattai Creek on Wiseman's Ferry road, were constructed by Mr Turnbull, who had a capacity for successfully carrying out large undertakings. He owned land at Emu, Yarramundi and in Brisbane (Q), His widow survives him, as well as a grown up family of four daughters and one son, two sons having predeceased him.. The surviving children are : Mrs Walmsley (Agnes) of Tuggerah Lakes; Mrs Rod. Dempsey, (Maude) of Abermain; Misses Linda and Hilda Turnbull, (Emu), and Mr Alma S. Turnbull of Windsor. The late Mr Turnbull died on the third anniversary of the burial of his youngest son, Claude. One brother, Mr George Turnbull, of Bulli, survived him The funeral took place on Thursday, when the remains were taken by train and interred in the Church of England cemetey at Emu. Mr J. W. Chandler carried, out ths funeral arrangements.