Great to see the name change for the thread.

John Harpley of Wongawilli put a tune to a poem by one of Australia's finest folklorists - John Manifold.

BINDA BALL 1864
(w. John Manifold/m. John Harpley)

Chorus:
There was never a dance like our Boxing Day ball
For we found at the height of the fun
That the Monks girls were dancing with Gilbert and Hall
And Christina Mackinnon with Dunn

The bushrangers’ gold in the candlelight flowed
And we joined in their generous caprice
But storekeeper Morris ran off down the road
To Bathurst to warn the police

‘Bad scran to the blackguard’, cried Margaret Monks
‘There’s time for just one event more
It’s a matter of teaching good manners to skunks
Come on, and we’ll burn down his store’

When the traps and the traitor rode up with the dawn
The store had been burnt to the ground
The dancing was over, the curtains were drawn
And the bushrangers couldn’t be found

They arrested Christina and Ellen and Peg
But we heard the girls pluckily call
‘It was cheap at the price to have shaken a leg
With John Gilbert, Jack Dunn and Ben Hall

Youtube clip

There's a contemporary account of the bushrangers' visit to Binda in a Melbourne newspaper:

Ben Hall and His Gang at Binda

--Stewie.