Format:	Set Test and Own Choice
Test Piece:	Excelsior [Round] 1888
Adjudicators:	Richard Stead
Venue:	Earls Barton, Northamptonshire

Position	Band	Conductor	Music	Set Test Draw
1	Rushden National School	W. J. Bridgeford		2
2	Northampton Temperance	Joseph Rogers		4
3	Rushden Temperance	John King Skinner		2
4	Earls Barton Britannia	Walter Reynolds		1
W	Derby United
W	Kettering Town

Prizes - 1st £13.9s. and cornet, 2nd £7 and tenor horn, 3rd £4 and baton, 4th £2.10s.
Reported in British Bandsman & Orchestral Times October 1889
4 bands competed.