Format:	Own Choice Test Piece Contest
Adjudicators:	Edwin Swift
Venue:	Melbourne Gardens, Northampton

Position	Band	Conductor	Music	Draw
1	Rushden Temperance	George Frederick Birkinshaw		3
2	Kettering Rifle	Alexander Owen		2
3	Rushden National School	Fenton Renshaw		4
	Walgrave Amateur	Randolph Ryan		1

Glee Contest part of 2nd Annual Contest organised by Northampton Temperance Band. Entries restricted to local bands.
Reported in Northampton Herald 24th July 1886
Prizes: £5 and 13 guinea cornet, £3 and conductor's baton, £2.
4 bands competed.