Hawaii Holomua, Volume III, Number 194, 22 ʻAukake 1894 — A Kingdom for Sale. [ARTICLE]
A Kingdom for Sale.
| A genuine kingdom, witu a capital, residence and seaport, is ! at present offered for sale in Berlin. lt consists of a purt of j tlie island T«tota, and is called 1 Malupia. The island is part of 1 the Bismark group, between New 1 j Zoaland and New Meclenburg. ■ The “Empire” covers just seven ■ square roiles (German), and was 1 pnrchased, dnring the eighties, 1 ' by Herr Georg Weisser, a retired 1 paymaster of the German navy, ■ and afterward director of tbe New Gninea Company. Herr Weisser had several bloody fights with his Samoan and Kanaka chiefs. but managed 1 to quell all rebellions and be- ' eame very popnlar with his sub5 jects. He died last year and bis 1 heirs, who reside at Kaiserslan- * tern, do not wish to exercise tbeir k regal duties and have instructed their agents to sell the nniqoe 1 property. Matnpia, the capital of the little kingdom, contains about 100 inhabitants, many of ’ : whom are Eumpeana. It is one : | of tbe best harbors in tbe archi5 pelago. —The Liternry Digeit. i :