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Show A KINGDOM FOR SALE. It Is Called Matupia and Is One of the Bismarck Bis-marck Group. A genuine kingdom, with a capital, ! residence and seaport, is at present offer ed for sale in Berlin. It consists of a part of the island of Tatota and is 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 purchased during the eighties by Herr Georg Weisser, a retired paymaster pay-master of the German navy and afterward after-ward director of the New Guinea com-pany. com-pany. I Herr Weisser had several bloody fights with his Sanioan and Kanakan chiefs, but managed to quell all rebellions and become very popular with his subject He died last year, and his heirs, who ' reside at Kaiserlautern, 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 1,0 tft inhabitants, in-habitants, many of whom are Europeans. It is one of the best harbors in the archipelago. archi-pelago. Literary Digest |