Format:	Set Test and Own Choice
Test Piece:	Lyric Garland 1885
Adjudicators:	Charles Godfrey
Venue:	Kettering, Northamptonshire, England, UK

Position	Band	Conductor	Music	Set Test Draw
1	Black Dyke	Alexander Owen	Heroic 1884	6
2	Oldham Rifle	Alexander Owen	Rossini's Works (arranged Owen)	4
3	Burslem	Richard Sourbutts		2
4	Rushden Temperance	George Frederick Birkinshaw		7
5	Irwell Bank	John Gladney		5
	Rushden National School	Richard Sourbutts		1
	Northampton Temperance	William Seddon		3
	Kettering Town	Randolph Ryan		8
W	Colne Borough
W	Farnworth Old

3rd Annual Contest organised by Kettering Rifle Band
Solo cornet contest after main contest. Seven entrants:
Jas Rider - Irwell Bank
T Proctor - Burslem - 2nd Prize
J Riley - Black Dyke
T Seddon - Irwell Bank
W Smith - Oldham Rifle
S L Marshall - Irwell Bank
T Young - Oldham Rifle - 1st Prize
Reported in Northampton Herald, 11th July 1885
7 bands competed