Format:	Set Test and Own Choice
Test Piece:	Hours of Beauty 1883
Adjudicators:	Charles Godfrey
Venue:	Melbourne Gardens, Northampton

Position	Band	Conductor	Music	Set Test Draw
1	Honley	Fenton Renshaw	Weber Fantasia [arr. Gladney]	6
2	Oldham Rifle	Alexander Owen	Rossini's Works (arranged Owen)	3
3	Black Dyke	Alexander Owen	Weber Fantasia [arr. Gladney]	4
4	Rushden Temperance	George Fred Birkenshaw	Rienzi [arr. Round] 1882	2
	Kettering Town	Randolph Ryan		1
	Kettering Rifle	Alexander Owen		5
W	South Notts Temperance
W	Todmorden Old
W	Wyke Old

First Contest organised by Northampton Temperance Brass Band
Quickstep Contest for local bands
1st Prize Kettering Rifle
2nd Prize Rushden Temperance
3rd Prize Kettering Town
Solo cornet contest after main contest. Entrants:
W Smith - Oldham Rifle - 1st Prize
T Young - Oldham Rifle
J Shore - Oldham Rifle
J W Foster - Kettering Rifle
W Seddon - Kettering Rifle
Reported in Northampton Herald, 29th August 1885
6 bands competed.