Aholo was one of the six legislators in the extra legislative session of 1874 , who voted for Queen Emma instead of the victor Kalākaua , although he would eventually reconcile with the king . From November 1874 to February 1875 , Aholo served as Acting Governor of Maui while Governor John Mākini Kapena traveled with Kalākaua on his state visit to the United States . He also worked as a clerk , private secretary and lieutenant governor of Maui under John Owen Dominis while Dominis was Governor of Maui from 1878 to 1886 . He became a friend of Dominis ' wife , Princess Liliʻuokalani , who adopted his daughter Lydia Kaʻonohiponiponiokalani Aholo . Aholo was appointed as a member of King Kalākaua 's Privy Council of State on August 12 , 1884 . In his capacity as Privy Councilor , Aholo and William DeWitt Alexander , the Surveyor-General , represented the Kingdom of Hawaii at the International Meridian Conference , held in Washington , DC , in October 1884 . Aholo and Alexander were among the forty-one delegates from twenty-six different nations assembled at the meeting . This conference resulted in selection of the Greenwich Meridian as an international standard for zero degrees longitude
International Meridian Conference
International Meridian Conference
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