Format:	Own Choice Test Piece Contest
Adjudicators:	W. W. Lax
Venue:	Garrison Field, Gill Bridge Avenue, Sunderland

Position	Band	Conductor	Music
1	Murton Colliery	Unknown	Fierrabras
2	Hartlepool Temperance	Unknown	Maritana [arr. Round] 1888
3	Hebburn	Unknown	Bellini [arr. Round] 1893
	Brandon	Unknown
	Pelton Fell	Unknown
	Rainton	Unknown
	Sleetburn	Unknown
	South Shields Garibaldi	Unknown
	Sunderland East End	Unknown

Trombone medal: Murton
Prizes: £5 and cornet, £3 and trombone, £2
March contest: 1. Murton
Open to bands which had not won a prize of over £12. Objection raised by bands that Murton had won a prize of £12. As a result only 3 bands competed