Format:	Test Piece Contest
Test Piece:	Lucrezia Borgia [arr. Round] 1895
Adjudicators:	J. W. Beswick
Venue:	Earls Barton

Position	Band	Conductor	Draw
1	Long Buckby Temperance	John King Skinner	9
2	Irthlingborough Town	Jeremiah Holdsworth	5
3	Rothwell Albion	Thomas Young	7
4	Thrapston Town	Walter Reynolds	8
	Wollaston Excelsior	W. J. Bridgeford	1
	Olney Town	James Hager	2
	Wellingborough Town	John King Skinner	3
	Hanslope Excelsior	Harry Sharpe	4
	Broughton	Fred Tingle	6

Reported in Northampton Herald, 5th September 1896
9 bands competed.