Format:	Own Choice Test Piece Contest
Adjudicators:	Joseph Gaggs , W. W. Lax
Venue:	Exhibition Park, Newcastle

Position	Band	Conductor	Music	Draw
1	South Derwent	George Raine
1	Tanfield Lea	Alexander Owen
3	Whitworth	George Raine
4	South Shields Borough	John Dennison	Reminiscences of Verdi	19
5	West Pelton Volunteers	Unknown

Contest associated with the Newcastle Jubilee Exhibition.

Prizes: 12 guineas + 12 guinea cornet, 10 guineas + 11 guinea cornet, 8 guineas + 11 guinea baritone, 5 guineas + 7 guinea trombone, 4 guineas

Contest was confined to brass bands belonging to the counties of Northumberland and Durham. Twenty bands entered, 19 competed, the pieces played being mostly from the works. of Meyerbeer, Round, Verdi, Balfe, Weber, Rossini, and Gounod.
History of St Hilda Colliery band by James Ord Hume and James Southern (published 1928) shows South Shields 3rd, Whitworth 4th.