HBH 1890 May 22 Waipawa Court Captain PREECE paid his usually fortnightly visit to Waipawa yesterday, and held a sitting of the Magistrate's Court there. The police applied to have a prohibition order granted against Alexander GRANT, Sheep farmer of Takapau, and several constables deposed that he was given to excessive drinking. Mr LOUGHNAN, instructed by defendant's family, opposed the order being granted. His Worship said that as the persons most interested were against the order being made he should refuse to grant it, especially as under the circumstances it would fail to have the desired effect if it were granted. A few unimportant civil cases were then dealt with.