Format:	Own Choice Test Piece Contest
Adjudicators:	Charles Godfrey
Venue:	Aston Lower Grounds, Birmingham

Position	Band	Conductor	Music	Draw
1	Oldham Rifle	Alexander Owen	Rossini's Works / Rossini Fantasia / Reminiscences of Rossini [arr. Owen] 1882	4
2	Black Dike Mills	Alexander Owen	Heroic 1884	2
3	Willenhall Templar	Richard Sourbutts	Stiffelio [unknown arranger]	3
4	Derby United	Alfred R. Seddon	Rossini's Works / Rossini Fantasia / Reminiscences of Rossini [arr. Owen] 1882	6
5	Newtown Band	W. P. Phillips	Emira	1
6	Northampton Temperance	Joseph Rogers		5
W	Heanor United
W	Honley
W	Kettering
W	Sheffield		Stiffelio [unknown arranger]

Prizes - 1st £20 plus cornet, 2nd £10 plus cornet, 3rd £10, 4th £5.10s, 5th £5, 6th £46 bands competed