Format:	Own Choice Test Piece Contest
Adjudicators:	Joseph Gaggs , W. W. Lax
Venue:	Exhibition Park, Newcastle

Position	Band	Conductor	Music
1	South Derwent	George Raine
1	Tanfield Lea	Alexander Owen
3	Whitworth	George Raine
4	South Shields Borough	John Dennison	Reminiscences of Verdi
5	West Pelton Volunteers	Unknown

Contest associated with the Newcastle Jubilee Exhibition.

Prizes: 12 guineas + 12 guinea cornet, 10 guineas + 11 guinea cornet, 8 guineas + 11 guinea baritone, 5 guineas + 7 guinea trombone, 4 guineas

Contest was confined to brass bands belonging to the counties of Northumberland and Durham. Twenty bands competed, the pieces played being mostly from the works. of Meyerbeer, Round, Verdi, Balfe, Weber, Rossini, and Gounod.

[Note – another report on this contest splits the first/second prizes between Annfield Plain Band and Tanfield Lea Band]