Format:	Test Piece Contest
Test Piece:	Iphigenia in Tauris 1875
Adjudicators:	Charles Cousins , James Waterson
Venue:	Pomona Gardens, Manchester

Position	Band	Conductor
1	Nelson Brass Band	Job Nutter
2	Meltham Mills	John Gladney
3	Linthwaite	Edwin Swift
4	Besses o' th' Barn	Thomas German
5	4th L.R.V. Newchurch	Unknown
	Hulme Temperance	Unknown
	Radcliffe Good Templars	Unknown

Prizes: 1st - £50, euphonium valued £27, cornet valued £20 and medals valued at £10. 2nd -£25 and cornet, 3rd - £15 and tenor horn, 4th - £10 and cornet, 5th - £8 and trombone.
Prizes amounted to about £250, including £85 worth of instruments from Joseph Higham's, and £43 worth of instruments from F. Besson and Sons.
25 bands entered, 7 bands competed
2nd annual contest