Format:	Own Choice Test Piece Contest
Adjudicators:	T. E. Embury
Venue:	Northolme Cricket Ground, Gainsborough

Position	Band	Conductor	Music	Draw
1	Lindley	Edwin Swift	Rossini's Works / Rossini Fantasia / Reminiscences of Rossini [arr. Owen] 1882	8
2	Cleckheaton Victoria	Hugh Whitham	Weber Fantasia [arr. Gladney]	10
3	South Notts Temperance	George Hames	Stiffelio [unknown arranger]	9
4	Batley Old	Benjamin Denton Jackson	Fantasie Operatic	6
5	Sutton Town	A. Howard Bonser	Rienzi [arr. Round] 1882	4
	Sailors' Orphans Boys (Hull)	Joseph Arnett	Kalliwando's Mass 1885	1
	Lincoln Temperance	John Ashton	Stiffelio [arr. Gladney] 1874	2
	Grimsby Artillery	G. Glover	William Tell [arr. Gladney] 1874	3
	Batley Victoria Temperance	R. Clayton	Tannhäuser [arr. Gladney]	5
	Derby United	Alfred R. Seddon	Rossini's Works / Rossini Fantasia / Reminiscences of Rossini [arr. Owen] 1882	7
D	Wyke Old

Promoted by Gainsborough Britannia Works Band
Prizes: £10 and 16 guinea euphoniume, £7 and 9 guinea tenor horn, £5, £2 10s
A cornet, value £5 5s, for the best Lincolnshire band that had not won a prize since 1870, together with £2 offered as a first prize to any Lincolnshire band, went to the Grimsby Artillery Volunteers
Wyke Old Band had been entered but having failed to send a representative to draw for a place, they were disqualified, although the full band was present in time for the contest.
10 bands competed.