Format:	Test Piece Contest
Test Piece:	La Favorita [arr. Round] 1898
Adjudicators:	James Ord Hume
Venue:	Compstall, Cheshire

Position	Band	Conductor	Draw
1	Heywood Old	Isaac Wharton	8
2	Birch Mills	Thomas Valentine	15
3	Blackburn Ragged School	William Rimmer	4
4	New Mills Old	Fred Durham	18
5	Sheffield Temperance	Colin Thom	16
	Denton	Whitham Smith	1
	Pendleton Old	Benson Powell	2
	Stockport Borough	George T. H. Seddon	3
	Dannemora	Robert Richford	5
	Millgate	Fred Durham	6
	Shaw	Albert Whipp	7
	Failsworth St. John's	W. H. Ellwood	9
	Lees	Samuel Radcliffe	10
	Poynton	Thomas Valentine	11
	Heaton Mersey	John Henry White	12
	Hazel Grove	Samuel Holt	13
	Brighouse Temperance	Sidney Whittaker	14
	Thornsett	Whitham Smith	17

Prizes: £16 9s, £11 7s, £4, £2, £1
18 bands competed.