Format:	Test Piece Contest
Test Piece:	Tannhäuser [unknown arranger]
Adjudicators:	J. Ord Hume
Venue:	Town Football Ground, Kettering

Position	Band	Conductor	Draw	Points
1	Kettering Rifle	Thomas Seddon	2	182
2	Earls Barton Old	John King Skinner	4	172
3	Finedon Old	Walter Reynolds	3	158
4	Kettering Town	Randolph Ryan	1	155

Third Contest of the Northamptonshire Brass Band League, Division 1
Each band played Tannhauser then Gems of Victorian Melody.
Reported in Northampton Herald, 27th August 1898
4 bands competed