Format:	Test Piece Contest
Test Piece:	Crown Diamonds 1896
Adjudicators:	Herbert Scott
Venue:	Rugby, Warwickshire

Position	Band	Conductor	Draw
1	Kettering Rifles	Thomas Preston	5
2	Kettering Town	Randolph Ryan	6
3	Raunds Temperance	William Halliwell	10
4	Northampton Temperance	Jeremiah Holdsworth	7
5	Leicester Excelsior	Randolph Ryan	4
6	Finedon Old	Thomas Seddon	8
	Irthlingborough	Thomas Preston	1
	Peterborough Excelsior	Thomas Seddon	2
	Leicester Imperial	S. B. Harman	3
	Rugby Town	Randolph Ryan	9

Promoted by Rugby Steam Shed band.
10 bands competed.