Format:	Test Piece Contest
Test Piece:	Macbeth [Verdi, arr. Round] 1896
Adjudicators:	A. D. Keate
Venue:	Griffin Inn, Higham Ferrers

Position	Band	Conductor	Draw
1	Finedon Old	Walter Reynolds	3
2	Peterborough Borough	H. N. Brown	2
3	Wollaston Excelsior	John King Skinner	6
4	Olney Town	Jeremiah Holdsworth	7
	Irthlingborough Town	Jeremiah Holdsworth	1
	Wellingborough Town	John King Skinner	4
	Thrapston Town	Walter Reynolds	5

Prizes: £8 10s, £4 10s, £2, £1 10s
March contest: 1. Thrapston, 2. Finedon
Organised by Higham Ferrers Town Silver Band
Reported in Northapton Herald 10th July 1897
7 bands competed