Show A KINGDOM FOR SALE It Is Called Matupls and Is Ono of the Bismarck Bis-marck Group A genuine kingdom with a capital residence and seaport is at present offered offer-ed for sale in Berlin It consists of apart a-part of the island of Tatota andis called Matupia The island is part of the Bismarck Bis-marck group between New Zealand and New Mecklenburg The empire covers cov-ers just seven square miles German and was pul chased during the eighties by Herr Georg Weisser a retired paymaster pay-master of tho German navy and afterward after-ward director of ithe New Guinea coin I pang Herr Weisser had several bloody fights with his Samoan and Kanakan chiefs but managed to quell all rebellions and become very popular with his subjects He died last year and his heirs who reside at aiserlautern do not wish to exercise their regal duties and have instructed in-structed their agents to sell the unique property Matupia the capital of the little lit-tle kingdom contains about 1000 inhabitants in-habitants many of whom are Europeans It is one of tho best harbors in the archipelago archi-pelago Literary Digest |