Format:	Test Piece Contest
Test Piece:	Torquato Tasso [unknown arranger]
Adjudicators:	Walter Reynolds
Venue:	Kingston Mills, Hyde

Position	Band	Conductor	Draw
1	Mossley	Edwin Swift	17
2	Goodshaw	John Gladney	18
3	Prestwich	John Gladney	13
4	Glodwick	Fred Durham	7
5	Bradford (Manchester)	Thomas German	5
6	Hyde Borough	Sam Newton	11
6	Shaw	Fred Durham	21
	Onward Temperance	Christopher Smith	1
	Denton Original	Alexander Owen	3
	Bardsley Old	H. Thornley	4
	High Crompton	William Peatfield	6
	Central Hall	J. H. Baxter	8
	New Mills Old	Fred Durham	9
	Stretford Village	A. Gray	10
	Thornsett	Benjamin Livesey	12
	Excelsior Temperance	Christopher Smith	14
	Albion Mills	Joseph Frith	15
	Nelson	Job Nutter	16
	Knutsford	H. Derbyshire	19
	Bradford Public	Fred Durham	20

Priozes _ 1st £12 and medal, 2nd £8, 3rd £5, 4th £2, 5th £1.
Band drawn no. 2 not named in Brass Band News August 1895 - adjudicators remarks state ' No doubt this band learned something by hearing the better bands of the day. Would advise them to persevere and try and copy the good points of the same.
21 bands competed.