§ Return ordered, "Showing the number of days, hours, and minutes occupied in the transit of Her Majesty's Mails, both outward and inward, carried during the year 1899 by steamships between Queens-town and New York, and also between Southampton and New York, the Return to specify the names of the steamers, and 1358 to indicate by asterisks or otherwise those not carrying the mails under contract."—(Sir John Leng.)