Format:	Own Choice Test Piece Contest
Adjudicators:	Mr. Hurst , George Raskoff
Venue:	Queen's Hotel Grounds, Sheffield

Position	Band	Conductor	Music	Draw
1	Chesterfield Matlock and Clay Cross United	Thomas Tallis Trimnell	Herculaneum 1868	4
2	Leeds Model Farnley and Bradford United	Richard Smith	Maritana [unknown arranger]	2
3	29th West York Rifle Volunteer Band (Dewsbury)	Benjamin Denton Jackson	'Worthy is the Lamb' from 'The Messiah' [unknown arranger]	1
4	Sheffield Artillery and Rotherham Rifles United	Henry Saville	Maritana [unknown arranger]	3
W	2nd Lancashire Rifle Volunteers (Darwen)
W	Bacup
W	Colne and Trawden United
W	Dewsbury Old
W	Holmfirth and District United
W	Saltaire
W	Wednesbury Borough

It was a condition that each band should consist of 40 players, meaning bands had to go to considerable trouble and expense to find the extra players.

Prizes: £30, £20, £12, reduced from £100, £50, £25, £10 as fewer than 2000 people attended.

Also cornet solo contest.