Format:	Own Choice Test Piece Contest
Adjudicators:	Phineas Bower
Venue:	Houghton-le-Spring

Position	Band	Conductor	Music	Draw
1	West Hartlepool Operatic	Alexander Owen	Rossini's Works (arranged Owen)	4
2	New Shildon Temperance	William Holdsworth	Meyerbeer's Works	6
3	Murton Colliery	Thomas Valentine	Faust [Berlioz, unknown arranger]	1
4	East Hartlepool Temperance	William Holdsworth	William Tell [unknown arranger]	5
5	Consett Ironworks	William Holdsworth	Meyerbeer [arr. Round] 1898	2
	South Shields Garibaldi	W. Sewell	Attila [arr. Round]	3

6 bands competed