ARRIVAL OF COLONEL OLCOTT.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVIII, Issue 226, 29 September 1897, Page 4

ARRIVAL OF COLONEL OLCOTT.

Colonel Olcott, General President of the Theosophical Society, arrived in Auckland this afternoon froui the South, by the s.s. Mahinapua at Onehunga, in the course of a tour round the world. Colonel Olcott Avas met on arrival hy a number of. local Tfieosophists, and was welcomed to Auckland. He will be present at a reception given to him by the Auckland Theosophical Society tonight, and will give an address. This is his first visit to Auckland, but he visited Australia about six years ago. Since then he has been travelling a great deal on Tbeosophical work, and has visited Europe, India, Burniah, Ceylon and Japan. On,his present visit to Australasia he came from India via Colombo by tbe s.s. Duke of Westminster to Queensland there to Melbourne and Sydney and on to New Zealand, lecturing at all the centres of population. Since h? was last in Australia the differeiif branches of the Theosophical Society, he says, have increased from 240.up to about 400 throughout the world. There are 12 branches in Australia and 8 in New Zealand. On leaving Auckland Colonel Olcott goes back to Sydney, enroute to Madras. That Indian city is the headquarters of that half of the Theosophical Society of which Colonel Olcott is president, as opposed to that branch which recognises the late William Judge as its spiritual head. It has been the Colonel's .residence since 1878 ; that is as far as his extensive journeyings have permitted him a settled abode.