Format:	Test Piece Contest
Test Piece:	Rossini [arr. Round] 1891
Adjudicators:	James Ord Hume
Venue:	Tonypandy, Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales, UK

Position	Band	Conductor	Draw
1	Ferndale	John Bailey	5
2	Tillery Colliery	John Griffiths	3
3	Blaina	Thomas Young	1
4	Aberdare Town	Jesse Manley	6
	Morgan's Cwmtawe	Evan John Evans	2
	Arael Griffin	Edward Sutton	4

Prizes: £16, £8
March contest: 1. Ferndale
Correspondence in Brass Band News May 1898 states that Tillery were disqualified and therefore Aberdare Town were placed 3rd.
6 bands competed