Format:	Own Choice Test Piece Contest
Adjudicators:	Franz Groenings
Venue:	Green Dragon Inn, Hardraw, North Yorkshire

Position	Band	Conductor	Music
1	Black Dyke Mills	Alexander Owen	Rossini's Works / Rossini Fantasia / Reminiscences of Rossini [arr. Owen] 1882
2	Rochdale Borough	Alexander Owen	Rossini's Works / Rossini Fantasia / Reminiscences of Rossini [arr. Owen] 1882
3	Linthwaite	Edwin Swift	William Tell [arr. Swift]
4	Earby	George F. Birkinshaw	Stiffelio [arr. Gladney] 1874
5	West Hartlepool	Thomas Hogg	Euryanthe [unknown arranger]

Prizes: £25, £15, £10

After the contest, M. Blondin went through his remarkable feats on the high rope at an elevation of 50ft above the ground. A heavy shower fell, which rendered the rope difficult to perform upon, and consequently the wheelbarrow feat had to be omittted.