Format:	Own Choice Test Piece Contest
Adjudicators:	James Holloway
Venue:	Pavilion Grounds, Matlock Bath, Derbs, England, UK

Position	Band	Conductor	Music	Draw
1	Oldham Rifles	Stephen Shaw	The Valkyrie	6
2	Irwell Bank	Edward Gittins	Heroic 1884	1
3	Rotherham Temperance	Charles John Elsom	Rossini [arr. Round] 1891	5
4	Sheffield Dannemora	Robert Richford	Rossini [arr. Round] 1891	2
	New Mills Old	Fred Durham	Rossini [arr. Round] 1891	3
	Thornsett	Whitham Smith	Verdi [arr. Round] 1892	4
	Hucknall Temperance	Sam Taylor	Rossini [arr. Round] 1891	7
W	Hucknall Excelsior
W	Kettering Rifles

Promoted by Lea Mills Prize Band
Prizes: £10, £6, £3, £1
March contest: 1. Rotherham Temperance
7 bands competed
Source:
Nottinghamshire Guardian (London, England), Saturday, June 25, 1898; pg. 3; Issue 2770.